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The Commission, the EU's executive arm, "must not underestimate the problem of GMOs; producers in Latin America, Canada and China should be forced to carry a GMO label," Hungarian Socialist MEP Csabal Sandor Tabajadi said.

This has nothing to do with GMOs and everything to do with economic protectionism as there is no plausible way GMO pollen would be any different from any other pollen when it comes to eating it. It's plain pseudoscientific scaremongering on par with the vaccine scare, since having modified genes doesn't automatically make the food contain e.g. allergens, because it depends on what modifications are done - yet the labeling would instill the notion that all GMOs are dangeous.

Which is why the Greens are the most insidious political group there is: they're using a genuinely good cause as a tool to institute social change; at best they hold some misanthropic delusion about how nature should be protected, but mostly they just don't give a toss.

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